Without knowing any of the context, I always thought 3DO Zone had a nice ring to it. But now that I know the context, I think it is akin to a nintendo forum being titled "nintendon't" - it doesn't bother me, and it's not like there are any other outside groups that are going to make fun of the forum because of its name, but I guess I lean more towards a change than not bc of the history of the term.

Well I always thought it was there as the sites that write 3D0 not knowing it's an O. I really can't recall the comment that was made though. Not that I'm known for an even halfway decent memory. Do you remember which episode it was? I have them all saved.

I think a lot of the press or the competition when talking sarcastically about 3DO called it the 3DZero (3D0) or 3DOA. It would grate on me too to be honest. Does anyone know why we called 3DO Zone in the first. I know, I should know. But for the life of me I can't remember. I know wasn't intentionally to be horrible or snarky to 3DO -

3DO Experience wrote:Do you remember which episode it was? I have them all saved.

It's at about 31:50 in the Level 9 video. Here's a transcript, though they talk about it a bit more later on too:

"There's been a lot of discussion on the 3DO forum, 3DO Zone forum. By the way, I have to say something about that."
"Oh, yeah?"
"I love the fact that there's a fan site. I can't stand that it's called 3DO Zone. Or 3D Zero. How do you feel?"
"That's right, it was never 3D zero."
"Yeah. And I see people --"
"It was always 3DO. Audio, video, radio, 3DO. That was the entire conceit."
"Yeah. And so, I love the fact that there's this fan site, but I don't know why they chose that name, if that's, A, just a misunderstanding, or if they were being snarky."
"It's possible that '3DO' was taken, so they took 3D zero...?"
"Because [...] I'm pretty sure it wasn't intentional that they did this, but that name is like, literally, nail, or fingernails on a chalkboard to anybody who was around when the 3DO came out. And the reason for that is, this was the...this was, like, the taunt name that people of other consoles would use when referring to the 3DO. This is the 3D Zero. It's like, 'Oh, it's a failure, it's the 3D Zero, not the 3DO.'"

3DO One forums (hey atleast its higher than Zero )
3DO FZ10 forums
3DO the expensive hunk of shit from the early 90s (ok maybe a bit to wordy)
3DO employees are irritated by our old name forums
or
3do.cdinteractive.co.uk

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i would have to slap you if you asked for my underwear in the first place

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In answer to the question, no I wasn't being sarky (snarky). I had extra capacity and the ability to open a 3DO forum alongside the CD-i forums. So 3DO Zone just sounded snappy and these forums were born. That's it!